Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 59
إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا عَبْدٌ أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَجَعَلْنَٰهُ مَثَلًۭا لِّبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ
Jesus was not but a servant upon whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the Children of Israel.
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(He is nothing) i.e. Jesus the son of Mary (but a slave on whom We bestowed favour) by entrusting him with the message and he is nothing like their deities, (and We made him a pattern) a lesson (for the Children of Israel) in that he was born without a father.
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#6003Sahih
It is not meet for a servant of Mine that he should say: I am better than Yunus b. Matta (peace be upon him).
Narrated by Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may prace be upon him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#4671Sahih
It is not fitting for a servent to say that I (The Prophet) is better than Jonah son of Matta.
Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet (May peace be upon him) as saying :
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
He Jesus is only a servant of Ours on whom We bestowed favour through prophethood and We made him by his coming into being without a father an exemplar for the Children of Israel that is to say like an example because of the wondrousness of his case one from which one is able to infer God’s power exalted be He to do whatever He will.